In northern Nepal, glaciers are receding. In the middle belt, forest fires are ravaging the hills and a withering drought has decimated farmlands. In the south, we've seen flash floods last year, and everything from fires to droughts this year. Have all these calamities been caused by global warming? Climate experts call Nepal a "hot spot" because the average temperature rise that our country has seen is six times more than the global average. Reports show that the global temperature rise is 0.01 degrees, while the temperature rise in Nepal is 0.06. The temperature rise in the high Himalayas is still more (0.08).
